Worst moments(s): Cowardly Republicans in Congress fail to adequately support Trump’s effort to build a wall to stop dangerous illegal immigration from Mexico.

Biggest question: Since Obama lied about his past, misused the IRS to attack his political opponents and spied on his political enemies, why aren’t more people alarmed by the radical, authoritarian aspects of Obama’s presidency?

Second biggest question: Now that Trump has rolled back much of Obama’s legacy, how much longer will it take to end Obamacare and install a new, market-driven health care system that will provide superior results for all of us?

Biggest miscalculation: Thinking it was wise to let Hillary off the hook for her behind-the-scenes efforts to enrich herself at public expense and failing to prosecute her for endangering us by sending messages using her unsecured, personal e-mail account.

Second biggest miscalculation: Failing to toss out all the Obama appointees and sympathizers who still have jobs in the executive branch.

This is not the worst four months or best four months ever fellas. Come on.

And Trump is not in any legal trouble. He is, and has been, in political trouble since day one. That is enough for impeachment. You better believe the congress is salivating over the idea of Mike Pence at the helm. Be careful what you wish for.

“The Russians”? Come on.

Classified information sharing in the Oval Office as the head of state? Largely his prerogative as the executive. He is in a secure area, and does have large latitude in deciding who has “need to know” in such cases. Also, not even true according to others who were actually there. But of course, according to “anonymous sources (who were not there and are not even in government anymore) from WAPO” he gave them “code words” that could directly hurt human sources.

Right.Riiiight.

Did you hear, Donald Trump, a world hotel and casino entrepreneur, had business dealings with THE RUSSIANS in 2010. NEWS AT 11!!! Can you believe it!!!

There are plenty of reasons to be against Trump… but so many of these stories are based on huge leaps of logic and false dichotomies and just plain blatant propaganda coming from “real news” outlets that they are making Huffington Post and Red State look legitimate.

I think it makes more sense to say that the Democrats and all their supporters in the media are simply spreading fake news.

After all this time, there is no evidence at all that Trump has done anything wrong. Even Comey absolved him.

According to Rasmussen Polls – the most accurate polling company in the last election – Trump is at a respectable 44% right now.

I have no doubt that Trump will eventually expose and prosecute the moles that are leaking on him right now.

These leakers are a threat to national security and they will not be around in the long-run.

Meanwhile, the economy is doing great, performing better than expected. It feels so good knowing that Democrats will not be micromanaging our speech and our businesses for the foreseeable future. Ah, freedom…

Don’t forget, President Garfield took a bullet less than four months after he was inaugurated. He died 11 weeks later. He might have survived if he had received better medical treatment. It is important to put these things into perspective. Trump is doing fine.

Compellingly, we have Harrison (dead of pneumonia 31 days into his Presidency), Garfield (shot just shy of 4 months into his Presidency – inauguration used to be in March) and Lincoln (where the southern states began leaving the Union after his election in advance of his inauguration and Civil War ensured).

I humbly acknowledge each of these examples as more dangerous and politically devastating than the first four months of the current occupant of the White House.

Regarding JCD’s link, because it took place late in the first term of the 44th President (believe), it does not qualify for consideration.

I would posit that if the counter-examples involve death, assassination and civil war, perhaps the first four months of 45 merit special consideration as the most damaging non-lethal and non-secession related first four months in the history of the Republic.

DERSHOWITZ: I’m here as a supporter for civil liberties and construing status narrowly as they were written. I just don’t see a crime here. I see perhaps some political wrongdoing. I see leaking information on both sides. But even if, for example, the campaign coordinated, which there is no evidence of, but coordinated activities with Russia. And even if Russia and the campaigns said, gee, wouldn’t it be better if Trump were elected? That’s political wrongdoing, but it’s just not a crime.

The fact that you are comparing the first four months of Trump’s administration to the first four month’s of Truman’s, does kind of make the point.

As you point out, Truman had a World War that we were fighting, in addition to very delicate negotiations with allies and our Soviet “partners” about resolving the war and post-war arrangements.

I know that Truman became deeply unpopular during the Korean War, but he had a united country behind him and the war effort and nothing approaching a 40% approval rating in the first four months of his Presidency. While originally a machine politician, he also was not subject to a far-reaching investigation by a special counsel.

From a domestic political situation, Truman was in a much stronger position. And from a geopolitical point-of-view, we were sitting as one of two super-powers with a compelling differentiation: our open political system coupled with abundant economic goodies while much of the developed world was in ruins.

I posit that the decision to drop the atomic bombs saved hundreds of thousands of American and Japanese lives (civilian and military). The bombings of German and Japanese cities were horrific in their own right. But it sounds like we can agree to disagree on that one.

Regarding Counselor Dershowitz, I think he is quick to clear Herr Drumpf and his associates before the investigation reaches critical mass (subpoenas, interviews, etc). I will posit that those on the left have been equally quick to convict Trump.

Time will tell. I like what transparency and sunlight can achieve in this case.

“Despite innumerable objective indicators of failure and incompetence — including a stalled and unpopular health-care bill, declining chances of a tax reform bill, criticism from European allies, a special prosecutor, the termination and scandals involving former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, open warfare among staffers and a growing list of court decisions slapping down his Muslim ban — President Trump continues to squawk “Fake news!” and rail at underlings. Now he is parting ways with his communications director Mike Dubke.”

If anything, I think Rubin underplays the potential damage being inflicted over the first four plus months.

Why do you think Trump is so intent on creating and exacerbating a rift with our western European allies? Who benefits from such a rift?